I've been paying annual visits to my friends Nathan and Clara and their little ones on their farm in Brooklin, Maine since 2008. B...

One of the drawbacks of shooting film, and multiple cameras* at that, is that there can be so much lag time between shooting, finishi...

It's time once again for my annual reverse migration to the woods of New Hampshire, where I teach at the University of Michigan...

Portions of this upcoming post originally appeared in the piece "Cobbled Together: American Fruit Desserts" on NPR's Kitc...

When I embarked on my Chicago Pie Tour back in March, one pie slinger I sadly missed is the suggestively named Cheap Tart Bakery . Own...

At NELP , we talk a lot about "interstitial writing." In a student's journal, it's the writing that happens off script,...

  My friend Jocelyn told me about this folk art painting, Acupuncture Pitchfork Style , by John William "Uncle Jack" Dey, wh...

So I know it's March and 81 degrees here in D.C., but before we slip too far into warm weather and the end of storage crop season, I ...

A few weeks ago, I was scouring the Library of Congress Print & Photograph Online Catalog for work. I was looking for images of western...

M y friends Becca and Justin recently visited Maine's Portland Museum of Art, where they saw the Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews S...

I like shooting film (still), but sometimes it means photos are late to the digital party. Here's Ryan in the strawberry-rhubarb and win...

I spent the 4th of July weekend in Maine for some summer days in the ocean air with good pals. Having listened to a lot of my favorite 80...